Which care homes in Solihull are listed on this page?

This page covers forty two residential care homes in Solihull registered with the Care Quality Commission. Each home has a profile carrying its current rating and the inspection report behind it. The homes listed include Blossomfield Grange, The Grove Residential Home, Merstone House, Silver Birches and The Friendly Inn. Reading the profiles alongside one another gives a fuller picture than the rating on its own.

What should families ask when visiting a care home in Solihull?

Ask about staffing overnight and at weekends, and how far the home relies on agency workers who do not know the residents. Ask to see the room actually being offered rather than a show room, and ask what the home does when a resident's needs grow beyond its registration. Take the most recent inspection report with you and put anything the inspectors raised to the manager directly. Stay long enough to see an ordinary part of the day rather than only the guided tour.

How does a residential care home differ from a nursing home?

A residential care home provides accommodation, meals and personal care, meaning help with washing, dressing, moving about and taking medication. A nursing home offers all of that with registered nurses on duty at all hours, for people whose medical needs require daily clinical attention. Every provider on this page holds residential care home registration. If the care needs assessment concludes that nursing care is needed, the search should move to homes registered to provide it.

Can the council fund a care home placement in Solihull?

Birmingham City Council may fund a placement where the needs assessment shows that residential care is appropriate and the financial assessment shows capital below the relevant threshold. Support is means tested, so many families contribute towards the weekly fee and some meet it in full. If the chosen home costs more than the council will fund, a third party top up may be sought from a relative rather than from the resident. Where the primary need is a health need, NHS continuing healthcare may cover the cost instead.

How do you arrange a care needs assessment in Solihull?

Contact the adult social care team at Birmingham City Council and ask for a care needs assessment, which anyone who appears to need care and support can request. It can take place at home, in hospital or over the telephone, and a relative or advocate may be present. If the person is already an inpatient, the hospital discharge team can usually make the referral. The written outcome sets out the needs identified and forms the basis of any funded support.

How far in advance should the search start?

Begin while a move is still only a likelihood rather than an emergency, because the homes that suit best are often the ones without a vacancy that week. A few weeks allows time to visit more than once, read the inspection reports and speak to relatives of current residents. Hospital discharge tends to compress that into days, and a decision taken at that pace is harder to undo than to make carefully. Requesting the assessment early keeps options open even if the move is later postponed.

Care Homes in Solihull

Solihull has 42 CQC registered care homes. 38 are rated Good, 4 Requires improvement. 36 of the 42 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

Solihull at a glance

What the numbers say about care for older people in Solihull.

Birmingham City Council pays, residential care: £1,012 a week. Self-funders are typically asked £1,219 to £1,579, median £1,398
Care home beds filled across Solihull: 85%. The 12 month average is 88%.
Care home beds per 1,000 people aged 75+: 67
People aged 75 and over: 25,700. Rising to 27,700 by 2035, up 8%
Care homes, last 12 months: 1 opened, 0 closed. 4 changed owner, covering 306 beds.
Who pays, across Solihull (estimate): 38% council, 58% self. The rest is NHS funded or other.
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 3,300. Rising to 3,900 by 2035, up 17%
People aged 85 and over: 7,100. Rising to 9,800 by 2035, up 39%

Powered by Orrery Intelligence. Market model built 22 October 2026 (ONS 2022 based population projections, CQC register), published care home prices, council planning records.

What residential care in Solihull involves and what to look for

Moving into a care home means handing over meals, laundry, medication and personal care to someone else, while trying to keep as much of a person's own routine as the home allows. How much of that routine survives has far more to do with the individual home than with the category it belongs to, which is why forty two listings need narrowing before they can be compared usefully.

Making sense of the ratings

The Care Quality Commission judges each home against five questions, asking whether it is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led, and the overall rating is a summary of those five. Thirty eight homes in Solihull are rated Good and four sit at Requires Improvement. Where a home carries the lower rating, look at what the inspectors were actually concerned about, because a shortcoming in record keeping reads very differently from one affecting the safety of care, and check whether the home has been reinspected since. For the homes rated Good, the individual judgements behind that word are where the useful detail lies.

Questions that separate one home from another

Ask how many staff are on duty overnight as well as during the day, and how regularly agency workers cover shifts. Ask how long the registered manager has held the post, since settled leadership usually shows up in everything else. Establish whether the home could keep caring for someone as dementia advances or mobility declines, or whether that would mean another move later on. Visiting twice, with one visit around a mealtime, reveals more about daily life than any arranged tour.

Getting an assessment and sorting out the funding

The care needs assessment

Anyone who appears to need care and support can ask for an assessment, whatever their income or savings, and it is worth requesting even where a family expects to fund the placement themselves. The assessment covers daily tasks, mobility, medication, health conditions, risk at home and the support a relative already provides, and it produces a written record of what is needed. Requests go to Birmingham City Council, which is responsible for adult social care assessments and for arranging funded support. Anyone caring unpaid for a relative can request a carer's assessment of their own needs alongside it.

Means testing, fees and the contract

A financial assessment follows the needs assessment, considering income, savings and, for a permanent placement, the value of a property in most circumstances. Above the capital threshold the resident meets the fees; below it the council contributes according to the assessment. Homes set their own charges rather than working from a common rate, so fees vary across Solihull with the room, the level of support and whether nursing care is involved. Ask for a written breakdown showing what the weekly fee covers and what sits outside it, including hairdressing, chiropody and outings, and ask how much notice is given before an increase. Where someone has substantial health needs, ask whether NHS continuing healthcare has been considered, since that is assessed separately and can change who pays.

42 care homes in Solihull

1a West Avenue · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
429 Warwick Road · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Alcott Lane · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Arbor Way · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Aviary House · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Caretech Community Services - Danzey Green · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Caretech Community Services - Yorkminster Drive · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Coleshill Road · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Greenview · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Lonsdale Midlands - Windward Way · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Lynncare 2000 · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Merstone House · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Rons Place · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Silver Birches · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
Stapleton Drive · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
The Friendly Inn · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
The Maples Residential Care Home · Birmingham, Solihull · CQC Good
222 Bills Lane · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
7-9 Downing Close · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Autumn Leaf House · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Birchmere Mews · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Blossomfield Grange · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Castle Lane · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Claridge Place · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Creynolds Lane · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Eastcote Park Care Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Elizabeth House · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Requires improvement
Elmdon House · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Fountains Care Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Hurst Green Road · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Job's Close Residential Home for the Elderly · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Requires improvement
Lyndon Croft · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Requires improvement
Mereside Care Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Rayner House · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Select Lifestyles - 512-514 Stratford Road · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
St Bernards Care Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Requires improvement
Sunny Mount (Knowle) - 127 Longdon Road · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
The Grove Residential Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
The Pines · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Wagstaff Way · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good
Willow Grange Care Home · Solihull, Solihull · CQC Good

What care costs in Solihull, per week

Type of care	What the council pays	What self-funders are typically asked
Residential care West Midlands figure, because too few Solihull homes publish this price. 30 homes. Median £1,398.	£1,012	£1,219 to £1,579
Nursing care West Midlands figure, because too few Solihull homes publish this price. 16 homes. Median £1,646.	£1,037	£1,460 to £1,936
Residential dementia care West Midlands figure, because too few Solihull homes publish this price. 23 homes. Median £1,484.	Not published separately	£1,375 to £1,681
Nursing dementia care England figure, because too few Solihull homes publish this price. 75 homes. Median £2,050.	Not published separately	£1,890 to £2,221

Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.

Inspected most recently

Birchmere Mews, 30 July 2026, Good
The Pines, 27 April 2026, Good
Elizabeth House, 6 January 2026, Requires improvement

Longest since a report

Rons Place, 29 December 2017, Good
The Maples Residential Care Home Limited, 5 January 2018, Good
Hurst Green Road, 16 January 2018, Good

Frequently asked questions about care homes in Solihull

How many care homes are there in Solihull?

Solihull has 42 CQC registered care homes: 38 Good, 4 Requires improvement. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does a care home cost in Solihull?

Birmingham City Council pays an average of £1,012 a week for residential care. Self-funders are typically asked £1,219 to £1,579 a week. West Midlands figure, because too few Solihull homes publish this price. 30 homes. Median £1,398. Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. Ask the home for its own price.

Which care homes in Solihull were inspected most recently?

Birchmere Mews (30 July 2026), The Pines (27 April 2026) and Elizabeth House (6 January 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.

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